THE MOMENTUM BUILDS. This week we saw a bunch of schemes to get self-driving cars on the road. The state of California released the latest draft of its regulations to make it easier for driverless cars to be on public roads by 2018. Those are vehicles with no one at the controls—not even a “safety human.” The University of Michigan is building a semiautonomous delivery vehicle for the US Postal Service. And a VC firm really wants to make a lane of I-5 in Seattle robots-only. Perfect driverless tech, with its promise of cutting crashes, can’t come soon enough. New data from the Department of Transportation shows that 37,461 people died on American roads last year.
